BY SUNNY A. DAVID
The Anambra State House of Assembly has passed a resolution calling on the Management of the Nwafor Orizu College of Education, Nsugbe to recompute the pensions and gratuity of their former staff who left service between first January 2007 and seventh August, 2011 on the basis of Consolidated Tertiary Institutions Salary Structure as approved by the Federal Government for all Colleges of Education Nationwide.
Our Correspondent, reports that the House passed the resolution during plenary in Awka.
The resolution was part of the recommendations of its Committee on Public Petitions which handled the petition written to the House by the retirees who complained that the salary structure was denied them.
The House directed the College to re-compute the retirees’ pension and gratuity on the basis of CONTISS table with notional effect from the date each individual retired from service or with financial effect any date as from eighth August, 2011.
Presenting the recommendations to the House, the Chairman, House Committee on Public Petitions, Chief Emeka Aforka said that the recommendation was based on the fact that it is unjustifiable, unconscionable and repugnant to natural justice to deprive a worker of his legitimate emoluments more so when his counterparts in comparable places are fully enjoying same.
Also at plenary, the House passed another resolution urging Governor Willie Obiano to direct the Commissioners for Environment and Housing, the Co-ordinator of NEWMAP in Anambra State to device means of curbing the menace of erosion so as to avert the prevalence of building collapse in the State.
The resolution was sequel to a motion sponsored to that effect by the member representing Aguata Constituency One, Dr. Carter Umeh.
Sponsoring the motion, Dr. Umeh explained that harnessing the existing capacities of community network, groups through legal recognition within urban planning processes and institutional frameworks is essential to incorporate knowledge and information on specific drivers of erosion, adding that increased coordination and opportunities for shared learning between government agencies can also arrest the ugly trend.
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